What to Watch Monday

Do you thrill to the sound of humming presses and rumbling trucks? Then check out “Spotlight,” the best-picture Oscar nominee that A. O. Scott of The New York Times says gets the gray areas of newspaper journalism right. “The X-Files” return comes to a close with Chris Carter, the show’s creator, at the helm. And Mike Nichols reminisces about his early career.

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SPOTLIGHT (2015) on iTunes and Google Play. In 2001, investigative reporters from The Boston Globe spent eight months digging into the role of the Boston archdiocese in covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests — and earned the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for public service. “During the climactic montage — the presses humming, the papers stacked and baled, the trucks rumbling out into the morning light — my heart swelled and my pulse quickened, and not only because I have printer’s ink running through my veins,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times about Tom McCarthy’s best-picture nominee. “Journalists on film are usually portrayed as idealists or cynics, crusaders or parasites. The reality is much grayer, and more than just about any other film I can think of, ‘Spotlight’ gets it right.” (Image: From left, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo and Brian d’Arcy James)

SUSPECTSon Acorn TV.Fay Ripley, Damien Molony and Clare-Hope Ashitey play London police detectives — and improvise the dialogue, working from a detailed plot synopsis — in Season 1 of this fly-on-the-wall British crime procedural. Season 2 begins on Feb. 29.

What’s on TV

THE X-FILES8 p.m. on Fox. Mulder and Scully have awakened some powerful enemies in this event finale, written and directed by Chris Carter, the show’s creator. So when people all over the country start falling desperately ill, it’s up to Scully to find a cure while Mulder confronts the man he thinks is behind the mayhem. But the agents’ salvation may lie in their pasts. (Image: Lauren Ambrose, left, and Gillian Anderson)

CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND8 p.m. on CW. Rebecca tries to recover from a texting fiasco by taking a case that she thinks will bring her closer to Josh. In “Jane the Virgin,” at 9, Jane ponders taking things with Jonathan to the next level and turns to Xo, who has her own relationship problems, for advice.

BECOMING MIKE NICHOLS (2016) 9 p.m. on HBO. Portrait of the artist as a young man: Douglas McGrath puts Mr. Nichols’s early career under a microscope, and captures him four months before his November 2014 death in conversation with his fellow director Jack O’Brien. The topics range from Mr. Nichols’s comedy partnership with Elaine May to his landmark Broadway productions, “Barefoot in the Park” and “The Odd Couple,” and his first films, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “The Graduate,” for which he won an Academy Award for directing in 1968. “This is what you need to know about movies,” he says. “You get lucky in various strange ways.”